Armed Forces: For Bachelors Only

A young Californian named Scott
Thompson was facing Army induction in just two weeks; yet he seemed
peculiarly elated when he phoned a U.C.L.A. coed. "Hey," he shouted,
"did you see the papers? Do you want to get married?" The girl did not,
no matter what the papers said. So Thompsonunless he could find
someone else in a hurrywas doomed to enter the Army. But some
340,000 other men of draft agewhose girls had once said yeswere
suddenly free to stay home. A presidential order last week exempted all
married men from induction,...